About : Sean Farrell

This is a page which will, hopefully answer the questions 'Who am I', What is this website about, and Why are you writing it

Unfortunately I am particularly bad at just getting on a writing something. When finding the right words to describe myself I keep finding that I always revert back to the form of a CV, listing employers and jobs. This can be very boring and doesn't show much imagination in defining yourself outside of a work context.

The short version of the story so far is: I'm a Physics Graduate from University of Edinburgh. Spent about 5 years working in IT with a variety of companies including RBS, IF, and Sun Microsystems. I have recently got married and just completed a teacher training course at University of Glasgow (Secondary School, Science).

Interests include films and reading. Yes I know it's the standard answer on about half the world's CV's, but its true. I do go the local UGC cinema whenever I can, and enjoy reading sci fi for fun - I really have to find time to finish Ken McLeod's new book.

Computer related interests include:

• playing with new computer languages for a short time
• trying to make my windows PC, or pocket pc work in a way which fits better with a unix-way-of-doing-things
• personal knowledge systems: organisers, calendar tools, text indexers, search tools
• shared information / knowledge systems : web pages, wikis, email / news groups, notes, tracking databases, workflow systems etc.
• computer based learning
• using data visualisation in teaching
• finding cunning ways to automate things, that really would have taken less time had I just got on and done them manually in the first place

Geek Code

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